While implementing IS and IT in support of their business strategies, companies are looking for ways to bridge the gap between their competitive position and technological investment, including ways to use this investment to the advantage of the organization. This book faces this challenge by...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data collection and retrieval, query optimization, and data analysis to advanced user interfaces. New...

Despite the significance and potential benefits of data-exchange standards, a void remains in literature of a research publication dedicated to its barriers and critical success factors. This book establishes factors related to the implementation and dissemination of data-exchange standards....

The book presents state of the art knowledge about decision-making support systems (DMSS). Its main goals are to help diffuse knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating decision-making support systems, and to create an...

Corporations across the globe are increasingly considering the importance of user experience and business process design in creation of Web information systems. This book provides an overview of modern Web application technologies useful to business designers. It presents information...

Dimensions of Diversity in the IT Classroom Onground and Online -- Dialectic Argumentation for Promoting Dialogue in IT Education : An Epistemological Framework for Considering the Social Impacts of IT -- Bridging the Digital Divide: A Feminist Perspective on the Project -- Gender and...

Web-based organizing in traditional brick-and-mortar companies : the impact on HR / Jaap Paauwe, Elaine Farndale, Roger Williams -- Integrating handheld computer technology into HR research and practice / Scott A. Davies, Robert F. Calderon -- Social network mapping software : new frontiers in...